External Editor in Sun Studio 8 IDE

When I invoke any external editor (Gvim or Xemacs) via File->Open File, a note dialog comes up which says:
Waiting for connection from external editor...... If you want to cancel external editor support and use the built-in editor instead, click Cancel
The external editor never comes up and the dialog box stays there until I click "Cancel".
While this might occur for a number of common reasons, which hopefully I've considered, while trying to troubleshoot, the solution was very strange. When my unix prompt contained a carriage return as in the following:
"413:sc:/home/server_k55/rbuckwa
as defined by:
PS1='!:$Hostname $PWD
the above described behavior occurred.
However, when the unix prompt did not contain a carriage return as in:
"sc{413}$"
defined by:
PS1="$Hostname{!}$ "
the IDE opened the file and the external editor successfully.
Does anyone have any explanation or experience with this strange behavior. BTW I'm running Solaris 8.
thanks,
rick

This sounds like a bug. We probably don't test with a prompt
containing a carriage return. You can file this bug using
http://bugs.sun.com if you like. Look for the "Sun Studio" categories.
--chris

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Pros and Cons of the Sun studio IDE

Hi all,
I have played a bit with the Sun studio now and I want to give you some feedback.
First of all, my background. I am working in a team with about 20 developers, developing a C++ application on Solaris.
Last time I stumbled across an installed Sun Studio 9 and gave it a try.
Initially I was verry impressed by the great debugger- and analyzer frontends, they look nice and work well.
After using the debugger from time to time and really enjoyed it, I thought about testing the studio for all-day work.
So, here are my impressions and the things that keep me away from using it.
1. The default editor isn't very usefull. For example, I missed regular expression search (and replace) and the feature to mark columns. Furthermore I really missed syntax highlightning for some other file types like sql- and config files, or even the feature to create my own. By the way, the predefined highlightning for C-files is also a bit too simple.
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2. In our team we are using teamware as version-control tool and it does a really good job. So for Workshop 7 we have some editor macros and the teamware-tools from version 6. In the studio I have found the feature to create my own version control profiles, but this is a hard way with many tries and errors. For example I have never accomplished it to set further status information in the explorer window, it's 'Local' all the time.
3. The studio needs very much memory, I think about 250 MB or so. This is impressive, especially if all the 20 people in our team would start sunstudio. I have found a hint somewhere in the docu that the studio can work in a client-server mode over a VNC, but I haven't tried it because I don't know what the admins would say if I start running my own VNC.
4. After I have also tried eclipse with the cdt plugin, I really began to like the source-browser and missed it in the studio.
5. All in all I hoped that the newest Sunstudio got a netbeans update, because some of the plugins that exists only for newer netbeans-versions would also be useful for me and my team. But, at least the latest linux-preview is also based on netbeans 3.5. Maybee do you have plans to update netbeans within the studio?
Ok, that's all for now ;-)
Please don't understand me wrong, I really like some features of the studio, and it's a great improvement compared with the workshop version 6 that I used before. But, at all for me the studio is still not useable in all-day work.
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1. The default editor isn't very usefull. For example, I missed
regular expression search (and replace) and the feature to
mark columns. Furthermore I really missed syntax highlightning
for some other file types like sql- and config files, or even the
feature to create my own. By the way, the predefined highlightning
for C-files is also a bit too simple.The current IDE we're working on is based on a current NetBeans
and has regular expression search (and replace). I'm pretty sure
NetBeans 5.0 (and presumably later versions) has syntax highlighting
for sql (its got an "SQL Editor" module which I'm guessing has the
highlighing you're asking for).
We're also working on many new editor features not in current
Sun Studio IDEs. These are mostly parser based stuff like code
completion, code folding, and a class viewer.
2. I think the external editor plugin is a bit buggy too, because
sometimes I have trash in files that I have edited before. But this
can also be my fault, because I use gvim and some editor macros
to do sccs-actions. I think the problems occur mainly if I use this
macros. In every case the external editor is not really an alternative
way for me.Its very difficult keeping sources in synch between netbeans and
an external editor. If you can give us a repeatable scenario for
failure we can take a look.
2. In our team we are using teamware as version-control tool and
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accomplished it to set further status information in the explorer
window, it's 'Local' all the time.We'll definately have sccs support in the next release. TeamWare
support depends on the status of TeamWare. Sun end-of-lifed it
4 years ago. As long as its EOL'ed, we won't support it. But if it
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3. The studio needs very much memory, I think about 250 MB
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would start sunstudio. I have found a hint somewhere in the docu
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Thank you for your report! There is no bug filed for
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java.lang.NullPointerException
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at org.openide.WizardDescriptor.updateState(WizardDescriptor.java:471)
at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizard.updateState(TemplateWizard.java:619)
at org.openide.WizardDescriptor.goToNextStep(WizardDescriptor.java:612)
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at org.openide.WizardDescriptor$Listener.actionPerformed(WizardDescriptor.java:1110)
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at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:258)
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at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
[catch] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:153)
at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:515)
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at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.superShow(NbPresenter.java:690)
at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.doShow(NbPresenter.java:733)
at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.run(NbPresenter.java:721)
at org.openide.util.Mutex$1.run(Mutex.java:952)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
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java.util.NoSuchElementException
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at org.openide.loaders.TemplateWizardIterImpl.nextPanel(TemplateWizardIterImpl.java:136)
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at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:234)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:5488)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3126)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:5253)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:1966)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3955)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2024)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4212)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:3892)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:3822)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2010)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1774)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3803)
[catch] at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:463)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:153)
at java.awt.Dialog$1.run(Dialog.java:515)
at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:536)
at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.superShow(NbPresenter.java:690)
at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.doShow(NbPresenter.java:733)
at org.netbeans.core.NbPresenter.run(NbPresenter.java:721)
at org.openide.util.Mutex$1.run(Mutex.java:952)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:199)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:163)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:157)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:149)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
About XEmacs: yes, the communication between IDE and
XEmacs is not stable. It was a little bit improved in
Sun Studio
10, but not enough. We plan to improve it in next
release. I'll
try to create a test case according to your
description. BTW,
why there are two or more XEmacs windows? Usually
there
should be only one window with many buffers. I don't
think
Sun Studio IDE can manage several XEmacs windows.Why? Because it is a great help to be able to watch two different buffers/modules at the same time when writing source code. If there is only one window with many buffers, I have to either split window in two (Ctrl X 2) or continuously switch between two buffers, which is annoying.
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Sun Studio 12 takes lot of time to startup

Hi,
When I try to use sunstudio 12 on a Solaris 10 U6 x86 box, it takes ages to open the UI window.
The window kind of hung state with out any messges showing in it until it comes up with full screen.
Debugging from sunstudio takes lot of time when we try step to the code.
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I use Sun Studio IDE on Solaris 10 x86 system with 2 Gb memory.
Its responsiveness is ok (though sometimes it parses my projects
for 10-20 seconds, but it happens only 2-3 times per day).
The "startup" time is about 20-30 seconds.
Let's try to find out what is the problem on your system.
Can you run "sunstudio" under "truss -d" and look at the log file?
Here is the command:
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directory, that causes these delays.
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After this I uninstalled Java and Netbeans and started the system prep tool, which correctly said I was missing netbeans and java. I had the system prep tool install netbeans successfully but I get this message when trying to install java:
error: Failed dependencies:
glibc >= 2.1.2-11 is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
sh-utils >= 2.0-1 is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
fileutils >= 4.0-8 is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
gawk >= 3.0.4-1 is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
textutils >= 2.0-2 is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
/bin/sh is needed by jdk-1.5.0_09-fcs.i586
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I could not find any log files with error information from Express or Sun Studio 12. Any ideas?Not yet :-) Can you try to build and debug a sample project? Does it show the same problem?
I mean one of several sample projects, that are shipped with the Sun Studio IDE.
Start "sunstudio", from main menu: "File->New Project", select Samples->C/C++/Fortran->Welcome
Did you try to run compilers and other tools?
Please, make sure they work. For example, run the following commands:
cc -V
CC -V
f90 -V
collect -V
dbx -V
dmake -v
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Recommendation for new features in next Sun Studio releases

Hello,
I have started using the Sun Studio Express recently and as a feedback to your opening to receive proposals to new features in the next releases of the Sun Studio collection I would want to point some aspects of interest to the programmers in writing good software for embedded systems and not only.
First of all, with regards to the subject of great interest to me in this moment, multicore/multiprocessor parallel programming, I would appreciate the following :
- if the compiler would be extended with new directives to allow the programmer to measure the load of each core and/or processor that is available to him.
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to get the core ID on which a specific section of code is executed. As en example consider o multithreaded application and in the associated function for each thread read the core ID and function of this value perform specific actions.
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to get the ID of the processor in the system - supposing a specific system has many multicore processors. (I don't know if this is possible).
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to specify the core and/or processor on which it wants to be executed a specific process,thread,function,(maybe instruction).
With these macros I think a lot of things can be exercised, one that I think in this moment is the posibility for the programmer to implement his own algorithm of load balancing for the cores and processors of his system.
Another point I would recommend would be that the watch window in the Sun Studio IDE to permit the selection of the format in which the data to be displayed.As an example if I have a U32 variable to be able to select in the watch window the integer ,hexadecimal or binary format in which I would want to be displayed.
Another useful thins that I sought at other IDEs would be a popup window or something similar to select how to see the source code: as a .c file , as an assembler code , or as a mixture of C and assemble.
That's all for the moment, if I see something else I would post another message.
Thank you,
Steve.

steveg wrote:
First of all, with regards to the subject of great interest to me in this moment, multicore/multiprocessor parallel programming, I would appreciate the following :
- if the compiler would be extended with new directives to allow the programmer to measure the load of each core and/or processor that is available to him.
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to get the core ID on which a specific section of code is executed. As en example consider o multithreaded application and in the associated function for each thread read the core ID and function of this value perform specific actions.
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to get the ID of the processor in the system - supposing a specific system has many multicore processors. (I don't know if this is possible).
- if the compiler would be extended with directives to allow the programmer to specify the core and/or processor on which it wants to be executed a specific process,thread,function,(maybe instruction).
With these macros I think a lot of things can be exercised, one that I think in this moment is the posibility for the programmer to implement his own algorithm of load balancing for the cores and processors of his system.
These are OS functions, not compiler's. Solaris has a wide selection of ways and tools to assign processes and threads to cpus; processor_bind(2) is a function you can call and pbind(1M) is a tool you can use on a running app. There are more, just google for it.
Another point I would recommend would be that the watch window in the Sun Studio IDE to permit the selection of the format in which the data to be displayed.As an example if I have a U32 variable to be able to select in the watch window the integer ,hexadecimal or binary format in which I would want to be displayed.
Good point. I'll check if there already is an RFE (Request For Enhancement) filed and file one if it's not. Thanks for letting us know!
Another useful thins that I sought at other IDEs would be a popup window or something similar to select how to see the source code: as a .c file , as an assembler code , or as a mixture of C and assemble.
But there is disassembly window already. See screenshot here: http://developers.sun.ru/images/stories/sunstudio/images/sun_studio_dbx.png

How to change Makefile file name in sun studio for linux 11?

Greetings,
For historical reasons, our makefiles are called Make.bld
Sun Studio refuses to accept these as makefiles.
It'd be a big pain to modify our entire build system to take makefile as the name.
Is there a way to instruct sun studio to accept a different filename for makefiles ?
Thanks,
Bill

There is no supported way of getting the Sun Studio IDE (or NetBeans) to recognize
Make.bld as a Makefile. However, the solution Nik pointed out with a .nbattrs file will
work.
Here is a complete file which, if copied to each directory containing a Make.bld file
will work. However, if the directory already contains a .nbattrs file you should edit
the existing one and add the <fileobject>...</fileobject> lines rather than overwriting
the entire file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE attributes PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD DefaultAttributes 1.0//EN"
" http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/attributes-1_0.dtd">
<attributes version="1.0">
<fileobject name="Make.bld">
<attr name="MAKEFILE_TYPE" stringvalue="foo"/>
</fileobject>
</attributes>
Note: I split the DOCTYPE line myself. It should be a single line in the file (although
its probably OK if split, I didn't verify that so I'll suggest a single line).
I should warn you that the next release of the Sun Studio IDE will no longer use
.nbattrs files and you'll need a different solution. A preliminary version of the next
release is currently available by downloading Sun Studio Express 3. The IDE is
significantly better than the current one! You also get a lot of the same features
by downloading NetBeans 5.5 with the C/C++ Development Pack.
Gordon

Opening performance analyser in Sun Studio 12

I want to know how to open performance analyzer in sun studio 12?

Yes, Maxim is right, you can start Performance Analyzer standalone tool:
# analyzer
Or you can use it from Sun Studio IDE: main menu "Advanced -> Advanced Profiling -> Start".
It will run your "main" project under "collect", and show the results.
Thanks,
Nik

Control Sun Studio 12 log files

Hi everybody. I'm new using the Sun Studio IDE. I'm not a developer, i'm a system administrator.
What I would like to know is how to control the size of the Sun Studio log file. For example, I have some users with the following files:
~/.sunstudio/12.0-SunOS-sparc/var/log
ls -lah
total 5227472
drwxrwxr-x 2 username groupname 4.0K Mar 4 11:52 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 username groupname 4.0K Mar 4 10:38 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 283M Mar 4 11:55 messages.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 1.2G Mar 4 11:52 messages.log.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 1002M Mar 4 10:16 messages.log.2
tail messages.log
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.uid.KeyBasedUID.getObject(KeyBasedUID.java:37)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.uid.UIDCsmConverter.UIDtoNamespace(UIDCsmConverter.java:81)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ProjectBase._getGlobalNamespace(ProjectBase.java:1155)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ProjectBase.getGlobalNamespace(ProjectBase.java:154)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.AstRenderer.render(AstRenderer.java:48)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.render(FileImpl.java:295)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl._parse(FileImpl.java:470)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.parse(FileImpl.java:437)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.ensureParsed(FileImpl.java:239)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ParserThread.run(ParserThread.java:66)
Why these files are so big? How can I control the size of the files? When the rotation is done? Can be compressed after rotation like "logrotate"?
Thanks in advance.

Hi everybody. I'm new using the Sun Studio IDE. I'm not a developer, i'm a system administrator.
What I would like to know is how to control the size of the Sun Studio log file. For example, I have some users with the following files:
~/.sunstudio/12.0-SunOS-sparc/var/log
ls -lah
total 5227472
drwxrwxr-x 2 username groupname 4.0K Mar 4 11:52 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 username groupname 4.0K Mar 4 10:38 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 283M Mar 4 11:55 messages.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 1.2G Mar 4 11:52 messages.log.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 username groupname 1002M Mar 4 10:16 messages.log.2
tail messages.log
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.uid.KeyBasedUID.getObject(KeyBasedUID.java:37)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.uid.UIDCsmConverter.UIDtoNamespace(UIDCsmConverter.java:81)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ProjectBase._getGlobalNamespace(ProjectBase.java:1155)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ProjectBase.getGlobalNamespace(ProjectBase.java:154)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.AstRenderer.render(AstRenderer.java:48)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.render(FileImpl.java:295)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl._parse(FileImpl.java:470)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.parse(FileImpl.java:437)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.FileImpl.ensureParsed(FileImpl.java:239)
at org.netbeans.modules.cnd.modelimpl.csm.core.ParserThread.run(ParserThread.java:66)
Why these files are so big? How can I control the size of the files? When the rotation is done? Can be compressed after rotation like "logrotate"?
Thanks in advance.

Problems with sun studio 12 in suse linux 11

Hi.
I installed Sun Studio 12 suse linux with no problems. However, the debugging modules (DBX) are not working any more. When I started Sun Studio, it gave a message about modules that could not be loaded in tha moment. I did not pay attention. But I noticed that all debugging options were disabled.
Using the module manager, I saw the DBX module was not checked, and I could not change it. I was marked with a red X. So I thought to reinstall the application. However, the uninstall utility doesn't work either.
According with the documentation, running ./uninstaller does it, but I get the following error message instead
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: uninstall_Sun_Studio_12/class
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: uninstall_Sun_Studio_12.class
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319)
I tried to uninstall manually, and then execute installer, by using first the software manager in linux and deleting the producregistry file manually. It worked because I executed the installer. However, in Sun Studio IDE, debugging options are still not available despite I "reinstalled" the application. I checked the log files and they say the file uninstall_Sun_Studio_12.class could not be written.
So my questions are:
1. Is there any other way to repair Sun Studio? What could be the possible for this module to stop working?
2. Does anyone have an idea of why the installer cannot write the uninstaller class?
I found that perhaps problems regarding Java / Netbeans versions could be the problem, but the ones I have installed are those packages that were installed along with Sun Studio, and both are valid.
Thank you very much.

Perhaps you can simply delete the Sun Studio 12 installation tree, because it will not work on SUSE Linux 11.
This OS is not supported, so any problems you see with SS12 on SUSE 11 will not be fixed.
But we have a newer version, that should work better.
You can try to download and install Sun Studio Express 2008/11 (extract pre-installed image from tar.bz2 file).
Here is a pointer to the web page:
http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/express
All you need is to provide a email address, and press "Download Now" button.
You will see a page, that gives you 2 options to download Sun Studio Express 2008/11.
Use "Option 2": Download Tarfile Installer
Thanks,
Nik

Sun studio and VCS integration?

Hi,
I can't find any information about what VCS, Sun studio can work with, I know netbeans provide CVS, SVN and Mercurial support, is it the same for Sun studio? Is there a documentation page about that, is there plugins, will netbeans plugins work with sun studio ?
Thanx

Yes, you are right, Netbeans provides CVS, SVN and Mercurial support (and probably
some other VCS, like ClearCase), and Sun Studio IDE provides the same support.
The Netbeans plugins will work with Sun Studio IDE.
Thanks,
Nik

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